Schools targeted by anti-vaxxers
The Met has been made aware of 34 incidents involving anti-vaccine groups or individuals at 31 different schools since the end of September, with officers being called to intervene on 19 occasions.
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Author: Toby Porter
This week 10, 20, 30 years ago
10 years ago: A jury of eight men and four women unanimously convicted Gary Dobson and David Norris of murdering Stephen Lawrence in Well Hall Road, Eltham almost 19 years before on April 22, 1993.
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Tens of thousands of Dulwich, Peckham and Crystal Palace homes and businesses hit by month-long postal delays at Covid-hit Royal Mail delivery offices
Tens of thousands of people have been hit by their post being delayed for weeks amid a Covid-hit staff shortage at the Royal Mail.
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Inspectors found Wandsworth prison heavily overcrowded and infested with rats
Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, has warned that a planned increase in the number of prisoners at HMP Wandsworth threatened the limited progress made in the Victorian prison.
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Two people die in Croydon house fire
Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters rushed to the blaze on Windermere Road last night (Wednesday, January 5).
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Healthcare corporation ordered to pay biggest fine after death of disabled pensioner in its Brockley home
BUPA Care Services (ANS) Ltd was fined £937,500 for fire safety failings and ordered to pay £104,000 prosecution costs at Southwark Crown Court yesterday. It is the highest ever fine for fire safety breaches in the UK.
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Surgeon at Evelina Hospital who saved lives of thousands of children is recognised in New Year Honours
Professor Shakeel Qureshi was made a Knight Bachelor for services to paediatric cardiology and charity.’
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Family receive five-figure damages after grandmother’s life cut short by Lewisham Hospital failure to spot cancer for a year
Maureen Gater was referred to the University Hospital Lewisham by her GP after three weeks coughing up blood.
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Residents fuming after 11-storey block of 60 flats in Croydon is approved
The 11-storey block will be built on the site of former bathroom shop Bathstore in Bensham Lane.
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Mottingham family furious after spooked cat spent three days up a tree – as firefighter said ‘I don’t like cats’
Two-year-old Buddy, a large white cat with black markings, jumped high into the 70-foot tree after being spooked by New Year’s Eve fireworks.
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Southwark Property firm fined for trying to charge tenant too much to end lease
Portico Property Limited, formerly based in Southwark Street, Southwark, was penalised by housing chiefs because it required a tenant to make a payment of £195 for leaving joint tenancy of a flat, when other flatmates wanted to stay.
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Two evacuated from homes above flaming restaurant in Penge
The extraction system from the ground to the first floor of the three-storey building was damaged by the fire. Part of the ground floor was also left blackened by smoke and flames.
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Man and his family racially abused at Tooting Broadway Tube Station
The victim was leaving a train at Tooting Broadway station on the Northern Line on December 11, 2021, when he and his family were approached by two men, who allegedly racially abused the man and pushed him.
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Why have the Royal Parks and Kensington town hall not cleaned up Emmeline Pankhurst’s grave
The suffragette’s great-granddaughter Helen Pankhurst has spoken out after a military grave restorer described the Grade II listed plinth as “an embarrassment” with the paving around it turning “black as night.”
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Greenwich road looks like a “landfill” site, say residents
Reduced bin collections over the festive period has left some Greenwich roads overflowing with garbage.
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You CAN leave your Christmas trees for the bin men in Croydon
Real Christmas trees can be left outside homes to be collected over the following fortnight.
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Mother dies after living on bench in front of Tooting Library for six years
Hawa Abdi and her son Muhyadin Gele had made a home outisde the building in Tooting Broadway after being evicted from the flat where her husband had died.
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Man’s body found in burnt-out Mitcham house two days after it was gutted in a blaze
The man was found in the building in Beecholme Avenue, Mitcham after the inferno enveloped most of its rooms it in the early hours of January 1.
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Greenwich blind teacher is walking around London over New Year for the Royal National Institute for the Blind
Ricky Simpson has been putting his best foot forward and walking 150 miles around London for the Royal National Institute for the Blind – with only 20 per cent vision.
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